Extrait mal traduit du chapitre 15 de "Les Entretiens" attribués à Confucius par Lao-Tseu (partie 20):
«Ce que l'homme supérieur cherche, c'est en lui-même. Ce que l'homme moyen cherche, c'est dans les autres.»

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Classics/Volume_1/Confucian_Analects/XV

|L'homme de bien ne demande rien qu'à lui-même ; l'homme de peu demande tout aux autres.|

Citation extraite de "Le Diable et le Bon Dieu" de Jean-Paul Sartre (1951).
Imposture! Voici une littérature fausse et creuse qui joue avec les oxymores pour attirer l'attention comme un vulgaire média.

Extrait de "Le Diable et le Bon Dieu" de Jean-Paul Sartre (1951):

Je le serai, oui, avec l'aide de Dieu. Je sais que le Bien est plus pénible que le Mal. Le Mal ce n'était que moi, le Bien c'est tout. Mais je n'ai pas peur. Il faut réchauffer la terre et je la réchaufferai. Dieu m'a donné mandat d'éblouir et j'éblouirai, je saignerai de la lumière. Je suis un charbon ardent, le souffle de Dieu m'attise, je brûle vif. Boulanger, je suis malade du Bien et je veux que cette maladie soit contagieuse. Je serai témoin, martyr et tentation.

|Je suis malade du Bien et je veux que cette maladie soit contagieuse.|

Il ne s'agit pas d'un proverbe, mais d'une citation déformée de Frank Frankfort Moore, journaliste, romancier, dramaturge et poète irlandais, dans "The Jessamy Bride" (1896).

Extrait de "The Jessamy Bride" de Frank Frankfort Moore (1896):

Il s'habilla et sortit, mais dans aucun de ses lieux habituels, où il aurait été certain de rencontrer certains des hommes distingués qui se réjouissaient d'être considérés comme ses amis. Dans son état d'esprit, il savait que l'amitié ne pouvait lui apporter aucun réconfort.
Il savait qu'offrir de l'amitié à un homme qui a de l'amour dans le cœur, c'est comme donner un pain à quelqu'un qui meurt de soif.

|Offrir l'amitié à qui veut l'amour, c'est donner du pain à qui meurt de soif.|

babu1sunary

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So I'm relatively new to fediverse, although I have already interacted with federated protocols (such as Matrix, but Matrix is way different from Mastodon/Friendica/Bluesky/Pleroma/etc).

I have been sailing through two Mastodon instances, but Mastodon's character limit is low for my needs. I'm a developer (JS, PHP, Python, etc) that also like to write poetry and chronicles, as well as interacting with AI to create artistic representations of the gothic and the dark supernatural. While it seems that Friendica supports more characters, I'll know it the moment I send this first post. It has 1342 characters in total.

I have a syncretic view over the reality, trying to converge scientific inquiry with the philosophical questioning and the metaphysical spirituality from all religions and belief systems (even when they seem to "contradict" one another; actually, they have more in common than people think, starting from the beginning of the existence from primordial waters from the amniotic liquid to the electromagnetic fields permeating the cosmos, but it's a subject for another future post).

One important thing for me to ask: does the instance allow AI Art (e.g. from artistic representations of daemons such as Astaroth and Lilith to mathematical concepts such as fractals; obviously these AI imagery would be marked as so)?

@dhaka

তুমি কি দেখতে পাও?

I tried Friendica previously, but never figured out what I wanted to do with it, and deleted it after a while. But after I'd read the excellent post @Elena Rossini wrote on her blog I realised I really should give it another chance, and decided to put a little more effort into it this time. So I created this account yesterday, and now I'm trying to decide how I want to use it. Some part of that uncertainty is because I haven't figured out all the bells and whistles of the platform, and I don't always quite understand what the help pages are trying to tell me. This is definitely mostly on me, having some preconceived notions and expectations, and getting a little confused here and there. This is not Facebook or Goggle+, it is its own thing.
For the most part though, just trying things out with one eye on those help pages have solved any questions I've had.

After I had signed up, I initially imported all the accounts I am following on Mastodon, but am starting to regret this. The two networks are obviously very different beasts, and I will act accordingly from now on. My current idea is to use Friendica, at least partly, as a sort of news aggregator, following accounts both on the fediverse and via RSS feeds, so a lot of those Mastodon accounts will be unfollowed here for a quieter experience and left on Mastodon. Just because you can follow everything everywhere on ActivityPub, it doesn't always make the best sense. But that, of course, is also the beauty of this, what doesn't make the best sense for me, might do for someone else. Different folks...

Occasionally I may even post something here, things that require more than 500 words, things like this.

That's what I'm planning to do right now, anyway. Who knows what I'll think tomorrow?

I started to digging into my latest hobby of #bookbinding (but it's not the only one i assure you)
And made several pamphlet, with also some custom design.
I recently made couple of handmade hardcover journals. One using a custom hero-quest character sheet, the other one is just a lined notebook.
More info for who is interested are available here: https://ko-fi.com/post/Two-more-bookbinding-projects-M4M511EWAN (don't worry all my posts on #ko-fi are free)
It also gave my a nice surprise of receiveing the first donation ever (even if it will be the last it still made me happy! :) ) Any opinion comment is appreciated.
These are couple of pictures of my latest works:

https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/useruploads/display/e25f68b4-5f59-4dd9-aa52-e93b11fe46e5_1000053442.jpg
any comment/critics is appreciated.

原文：https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00323217221150871
本文的翻译是笔记式翻译（概述原文，但不包含译者观点），并不完整

What Was the ‘Alt’ in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On ‘Alt’ as a Political Modifier
另类右翼、另类lite、另类左翼中的“另类”是什么？关于作为政治能指的“另类”

“另类”修饰语最好被理解为是关于政治该怎样进行的偏好的能指。“另类”主要被用来标示其与主流在遵守政治行为规范方面的决裂：也就是拒绝“礼貌”，拥抱下流、尖锐的“幽默”，对政治对手采用对抗的、经常是故意冒犯的方式。

在“另类右翼”一词被谁创造、何时出现的问题上存在着分歧。一些记述将其追溯到2008年11月，旧保守派人物Paul Gottfried在极右翼H.L. Mencken Club发布的演讲，《另类右翼的衰弱与崛起》。其它描述则认为是Richard Spencer创造了这个术语，Spencer本人也认为如此。2010年时Spencer用这个术语作为网站的域名，当时这个网站在语气上还偏好严肃、理智主义、受人尊敬的形象。后来他表示嫌这个词消极且相对主义，而且不想把自己的主意根基于传统左右划分。

尽管Spencer放弃了这个术语，接下来这个词继续偶尔出现在Reddit、4Chan等地方。在2015年，它出人意料地在社媒上爆发。这和早期的“另类右翼”之间存在着核心区别，早期的核心是Spencer，后期“另类右翼”的核心则是各种网络名人，而且没有披上体面、理智主义的外衣，拥抱网络巨魔文化的讽刺、挖苦、堕落幽默感，不像早期的“另类右翼”一样在伪知识分子网站上发布冗长严肃的文章，而是通过“政治正确”和故意冒犯模因来交流。另类右翼的顶峰是川普竞选时期。

Alt-lite（或Alt-light）则是另类右翼用来贬义地描述那些同情，或者与另类右翼有联系，但不表明民族主义或反犹观点的人。他们在仇恨女性主义者、移民等方面与另类右翼一致。他们会使用“言论自由”、“政治正确”等方式，声称自己的批评者过度敏感、不懂幽默，他们有更广泛的媒体影响力与更复杂的策略。它通常不是一个独立的运动，而是在另类右翼的旗下。

另类左翼则是个用来攻击的术语，试图通过声称左翼中也有同样糟糕的、极端主义的群体来攻击左翼。它由特朗普的随口一说和随后几天极右翼网站的专栏开始。最开始只是一种模糊的、哪里都可以用的攻击，后来采用了一种政治马蹄理论的现代版本，再后来用来指一些同样具有讽刺语气、频繁使用模因、反对任何不以阶级为中心的“身份政治”的左翼网络媒体。基本没有人用这个标签来描述自己，几乎是用来攻击一个不存在的运动。后来似乎几乎没什么人使用了。

对于liberals和中间派来说，另类右翼和另类左翼所蕴含的道德等价使他们能够把自己包装为进步政治价值真正的火炬手，不单单能对抗另类右翼，还能对抗另类左翼所谓的性别歧视、种族主义、年龄歧视和在身份政治上的装聋作哑。另外，这种一边是另类左翼，一边是另类右翼的二分框架使得liberals和中间派能够声称：

他们被夹在两种隐秘地有许多共同点的狂热分子之间。这将他们的自由主义，可能还包括一些“温和的共和党人”，的独特品牌，打造为唯一合理的立场，而且是被另类们围攻的那种。

liberals和中间派因此能够将自己描绘为政治房间里唯一的明智成年人。